Champion Vettel chasing Schumi's seven in Abu Dhabi

Champion Vettel chasing Schumi's seven in Abu Dhabi

James Hunt would doubtless have done it differently but Sebastian Vettel's idea of bliss after winning the Formula One championship for the fourth year in a row was a few quiet days at home.

The partying can wait for Red Bull's 26-year-old German, the sport's youngest quadruple champion, who still has unfinished business this season with three races yet to be won.

"We want to race, race the others as hard as possible," he told reporters at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix where he is chasing a seventh successive win to equal compatriot Michael Schumacher's 2004 seven in a row.

"If we have a chance, we want to win."

No other driver in the modern era has won seven times consecutively, with Italian Alberto Ascari setting the record of nine in 1952/53.